Management of Fujian Jiangxia University in China has revealed that the institution intends to implement student and faculty exchange programs and offer scholarships to Ghanaian students.

This will form part of the partnership the university is seeking to have with the government through the Ministry of Education.

Deputy Minister for Education, Dr. Clement Apaak, received the delegation from Fujian Jiangxia University on behalf of the Minister for Education, Honourable Haruna Iddrisu.

Dr. Apaak commended the Fujian Jiangxia University for choosing to partner Ghana in the areas of education and agriculture.

Emphasizing Ghana’s democratic stability, Dr. Apaak expressed the Ministry’s preparedness to partner the Chinese university on the exchange programs and other scholarship opportunities.

Other potential areas of collaboration include public foreign language education, electronic information, science and technology, engineering, agriculture, finance, and economics, among others.

Fujian Jiangxia University currently maintains partnerships with several institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Malaysia, and Finland.

About Fujian Jiangxia University

Founded in March 2010, Fujian Jiangxia University is established and supervised by Fujian Provincial People's Government as a public university offering undergraduate education.

Its main campus, which is the new one, is located in University Town of Fuzhou. The total area of both new and old campuses is 109.876 hectares.

The university enrolls students from 11 provinces, including some autonomous regions, and currently has 15,709 full-time students.

Fujian Jiangxia University has 11 secondary colleges and 4 teaching departments, namely, College of Accounting, College of Business Administration, College of Economics and Trade, College of Finance, College of Law, College of Public Administration, College of Electronic Information Science and Technology, College of Engineering, College of Design and Creativity, Straits College of Finance and Economics, College of International Education, Department of Ideological and Political Theory, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Public Foreign Language and  Department of Public Physical Education.

FJU sets up 27 undergraduate specialties which fall in 6 subjects of economics, management, law, techniques, science and art.